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Just a week after announcing it would no longer cover ransomware payments in France, global insurance company AXA has been hit with a targeted ransomware attack. The Avaddon ransomware group took credit for the attack, telling Bleeping Computer that it… Continue reading Avaddon Targets Insurer AXA with Ransomware | Avast
If your business is hit by a ransomware attack, what happens if you just pay the ransom? We’ll break it down & show you how to avoid becoming a victim.
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Like the Kubler-Ross stages of grief, there are multiple stages of data breach. Anger, denial, blame, investigation, litigation, regulation and, ultimately, resignation. This includes possible class action litigation by consumers, banks, vendors, supp… Continue reading High Court Deals Blow to Data Privacy Regulations
Nobody wants to be a proverbial guinea pig; least of all, developers donating their time and energy to making the world a better place. You’d think with all the recent discussion about consent, researchers would more carefully observe ethical bo… Continue reading The Role of Ethics in Cybersecurity Studies
It’s the all ransomware edition featuring huge breaches at Toshiba & the VA plus a special report on the state of phishing security in 2021.
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President Biden served up an Executive Order, prompted by fallout from the SolarWinds attack, that has drawn praise for the administration’s obvious commitment to cybersecurity and a willingness to put the weight of the federal government’s purchasing… Continue reading Biden EO Has Teeth, But May Prove Difficult to Implement
A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs wonders if this could be a useful defense:
In Russia, for example, authorities there g… Continue reading Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware
In 2013, the Obama Administration began asking what government could do to improve cybersecurity. By February 2014, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, convened a… Continue reading The Establishment of a Cyber Safety Review Board
DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared.
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Late on Friday May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline, the company that runs the largest gasoline pipeline in the US, shut down operations following a ransomware attack on their systems. It later emerged that a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service crimi… Continue reading DarkSide Gang and the New Golden Age of Piracy